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	History of the BSD Daemon - http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/ Various drawings, pictures, and information on the red devil BSD mascot.
	Unix History - http://www.levenez.com/unix/ A detailed family tree.
	The Creation of the UNIX Operating System - http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/ Lengthy encyclopedia-quality article from Bell Labs, covering the early days to the present versions.
	The Unix Heritage Society - http://www.tuhs.org/ Built to foster the "the preservation and maintenance of historical and non-mainstream UNIX systems." Mailing list and archives. Includes early Unix source code, from 1973 through the 1990s.
	A Brief Synopsis of Unix History - http://kb.indiana.edu/data/acve.html?cust=7748 University of Indiana Knowledge Base article. Summary of Unix versions and links to related entries.

	The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System - http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html 1979 conference paper by Dennis Ritchie. "Concentrates on the evolution of the file system, the process-control mechanism, and the idea of pipelined commands. Some attention is paid to social conditions during the development of the system."
	Unix Programmer's Manual, Seventh Edition - http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/ Archives at Bell Labs of the 1979 manual. Troff source and formatted Gzipped PostScript/PDF versions.
	The Unix System: History and Timeline - http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html Historical summary and timeline.
	The UNIX Time-Sharing System - http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html Ritchie and Thompson's famous Communications of the ACM paper from 1974. An authoritative and technical overview of the operating system.
	A Brief History of Unix - http://www.hsrl.rutgers.edu/ug/unix_history.html History of Unix and causes for its popularity. "This document is designed to give people with no previous UNIX experience some sense of what UNIX is. This document will cover the history of UNIX and an introduction to UNIX."

	Bell Labs: Selected Technical Reports - http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html Several classic Unix papers dating back to 1973. Most reports are Gzipped PostScript, some are in PDF.
	Dennis Ritchie's Home Page - http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/ Several historic technical reports, anecdotes, and stories from one of the fathers of Unix.
	History of Unix, Linux, and Open Source - http://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/history.html Historical comparison of Unix and the free software movement.
	Nick Moffitt's $7 History of Unix - http://crackmonkey.org/unix.html History paper detailing the people and places involved in developing Unix.
	CSRG Archive CD-ROMs - http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/ The full source archives of the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group, for sale on a 4-CD set.

	A History of UNIX before Berkeley - http://www.darwinsys.com/history/hist.html A detailed overview of Unix people and components, 1975-1984.
	UNIX History Graphing Project - http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html Lists of release dates and dependencies for the various Unix flavors. A graphical representation of the Unix family tree is planned.
	About the FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/history.html History and overview from the FreeBSD Handbook.
	OMU - One Man Unix - http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=335 Steve Hosgood's work with an early 1980s Unix clone. Includes some utility sources.

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